[tei-council] DTD generation and overriding @rend, again

[James Cummings]

On 03/08/14 15:27, Lou Burnard wrote:
> On 03/08/14 12:53, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>> My
>>> guess would be that anyone sophisticated enough to know what to do with
>>> them has long moved on to RNG or XSD.
>> i am inclined to agree. but there may be communities in rural Montana who
>> cling to the Old True Ways.
>
> I am sure there are some very sophisticated people in rural Montana too,
> however, the real problem is that those hypothetical old timers probably
> won't be reading TEI-L either. Until all their systems break, of course,
> (FWIW, my guess is that iff people ARE still using DTDs they are MORE
> likely to be using the parameterised version, not less, since this is
> what we used to require.

I tend to think this is probably closer to the truth than we'd 
like. There are certainly TEI Members who do not subscribe to 
TEI-L (e.g. libraries where the responsible person pays the bill 
for their library but doesn't actually do TEI themselves) and 
plenty of people who use the TEI who also don't subscribe to 
TEI-L (or are members).  I think asking the question in this way 
is probably a hiding on to nothing -- If ppl answer saying they 
do, then we should keep supporting them. If no one answers saying 
they do, then we still don't know that there aren't people out 
there using them. How many people using parameterised DTDs means 
that we should still support them?

If this was asked as part of a longer survey, circulated to all 
members as well as outside TEI-L I'd be more confident of the 
results.

-James

-- 
Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford